I Am Not the God of Drama

Chapter 748: The Forgotten Domain

The Forgotten Domain

Chen Ling's brows furrowed tightly.

The so-called Paths to Divinity consisted of ten ranks, and the first major turning point was the Fourth Rank. Upon stepping into the Fourth Rank, one could project their skills outward to influence a large surrounding area... This was what was known as a "Domain."

And right now, the only person capable of unleashing a Domain in this place was Little Jian, who had just been dozing off alongside him.

"Spades, what are you doing?" Chen Ling demanded in a deep voice.

From within the dense fog of killing intent, there was absolutely no response.

Amidst the thick fog, Jian Changsheng's silhouette resembled an indistinct ghost... He took slow, deliberate steps toward Chen Ling, and with his advance, an ancient killing intent locked onto Chen Ling from the void!

Chen Ling found this ancient killing intent somewhat familiar; he seemed to have felt it before in the Ancient Vault of the Military Path. It was an absolute will to slaughter all living beings in the world, an overwhelming suppressive force born from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!

It wasn't that Chen Ling hadn't seen other Domains of the Path of the Soldier God, but none were like the one before him—so ancient and extremely oppressive...

'He really wants to kill me?!'

Chen Ling's pupils contracted slightly as the Bone-Stripping Knife slipped from his sleeve into his palm; he was already prepared for battle.

Right at that moment, a muffled groan sounded from the dense fog of killing intent, and the chilling aura surrounding them dissipated instantly, as if it had never been there at all... Jian Changsheng's face was deathly pale. Like someone abruptly waking from a deep dream, he staggered forward two steps and then planted face-first onto the ground.

Seeing this scene, Chen Ling was suddenly taken aback.

"You son of a bitch... Hearts, you're not even going to help me up!" Jian Changsheng gritted his teeth as he lay sprawled on the ground, beads of sweat rolling down his cheeks as if his mind had been severely overdrawn.

"You were trying to kill me, and you expect me to help you?"

"No... I really don't know what happened. Just now, I wanted to try out the Domain, and as a result... I felt something suddenly surge up, and then I lost consciousness."

Chen Ling was lost in thought... After unleashing the Calamity of Mockery this time, he had also watched the entire subsequent process from the audience seats, including Jian Changsheng's inexplicable dark-eyed rampage. He had already suspected that there were likely some secrets hidden within Jian Changsheng; otherwise, there was simply no way to explain how he had previously resurrected from the dead in the Ancient Vault of the Military Path.

Looking at it now, the secrets this guy was harboring were no smaller than his own...

They both claimed to be taking a nap, yet while he was drawing new abilities in the Theater, Jian Changsheng had inexplicably unlocked his Domain right next to him. Neither of them had truly been resting.

Seeing this, Chen Ling still walked over and helped Jian Changsheng to his feet.

"Your Domain can only be maintained for a few seconds?"

"...I don't think so. I probably just opened it the wrong way." Jian Changsheng's brows were tightly locked together as he carefully sensed something. "Strange, why does this Domain feel different from other Domains on the Shura path?"

"It's supposed to be different." Chen Ling patted him on the shoulder and said meaningfully, "Monsters are always special... Both you and I."

"? Who are you calling a monster?" Jian Changsheng scoffed coldly.

"I'm not like your world-ending self. I am a normal person!"

Jian Changsheng seemed completely unaware of his previous few instances of losing control with dark eyes, nor had he noticed how he differed from others. From his perspective, he was just an ordinary guy with terrible luck.

Chen Ling: "..."

"Right, right, right. You are a normal person," Chen Ling brushed him off.

"Wait a minute... Your aura seems to be at the Fourth Rank as well." Jian Changsheng suddenly thought of something and looked at Chen Ling curiously. "Where is your Domain? Hurry up and whip it out for me to see."

Chen Ling froze in place.

As if realizing something, he looked blankly at his own body...

'Right.'

'Where is my Domain???'

Logically speaking, after an Advancement, new skills would naturally appear in one's mind. This had been the case with Formless, Scarlet Trick, and Fate Weaving... But this time, there was absolutely no information regarding a Domain in Chen Ling's mind.

"Wait, how did you use your Domain?"

"What do you mean how... I just felt it, wanted to try it out, and then I used it." Jian Changsheng scratched his head and said, "Even though I wasn't really sure how to do it the first time, after using it once, I think I understand the correct way to use it now."

"..."

"So, where is your Domain?"

"...I don't know." Chen Ling paused for a moment before speaking blankly. "I can feel that something has been added to my body, but... but I think I forgot how to use it."

"??? No way, you can even forget that??"

Jian Changsheng wore an expression as if he were looking at an idiot.

Immediately after, as if a thought had struck him, his eyes lit up. "Then doesn't that mean... right now I have mastered a Domain but you haven't, so I can beat the crap out of you?!"

"You're overthinking it."

Chen Ling spoke calmly, placing one hand on his waist to grip the handle of his revolver as a wisp of the Path of the Soldier God's aura silently emanated outward.

"After all, even if I forgot one Domain, I still have another one... Do you want to try it out?"

"...Damn it, monster."

Jian Changsheng clicked his tongue, ultimately suppressing the idea of beating the crap out of Chen Ling right then and there.

After this little interlude, the two naturally had no further interest in dozing off. They continued walking along the railway tracks toward the Tianshu Domain... while Chen Ling remained constantly distracted.

He couldn't figure it out. Why was it that even though he had clearly advanced to the Fourth Rank, he had received no introductory information about his Domain?

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration crossed his mind.

"Spades, have I gone crazy recently?"

"??? Do you think you aren't crazy enough already?"

"Not the Calamity of Mockery... I mean the other kind, where I suddenly suffer from mental confusion, do inexplicable things, and have skills lose control."

"..." Jian Changsheng wanted to say that Chen Ling was sick in the head, but after thinking about it carefully, he shook his head and said, "No."

"...Could it be that the problem lies here?"

Although Chen Ling himself didn't remember, he knew that every time after an Advancement, he would experience a brief period of mental confusion... And after recovering from that confusion, he would successfully advance while simultaneously mastering the skill information corresponding to that rank.

But during the process of this Advancement, he had been in a state of being replaced by The Audience, and no mental confusion had occurred at all.

'Did The Audience's takeover wipe out my Domain information??'

Chen Ling vaguely felt that this was exactly where the problem lay. He could clearly sense a powerful and mysterious Domain within his body, but he just didn't know how to use it, nor did he know what its abilities were... It was like knowing there was a super vault in his own basement, yet having forgotten the password!

Chen Ling felt incredibly frustrated inside.

As he walked along the tracks, he waved his hands around inside his sleeves in a pretentious manner, trying to find a way to activate his Domain... but absolutely nothing unusual happened around him.

Chen Ling couldn't help but let out a long sigh, his eyes filled with unwillingness.

"Is there any other way... for me to go crazy one more time?"